{"product_id":"the-last-house-9781894078740","title":"The Last House","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems of disturbing beauty, examining personal and collective loss.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is Michael Kenyon's third full-length collection of poems. His poetry and fiction have always been alert to the underside, the angularity of the outcast, those forced by temperament or predilection or circumstance to the fringes of middle class life. Here, it is insight itself that pushes the speakers closer to the edge. The world of these poems is dark: Kenyon names and owns our clear cuts, our overpopulation, our fossil-fueled rush to oblivion, the violence embedded in sexuality. This is a book of expanded elegy, clear-eyed, unflinching, amid the wreckage of its loves.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"It is useless to\u003cbr\u003e\nchoose a direction: current must find us.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt last we swim away from each other\u003cbr\u003eto make the storm less jealous, old stars freeze\u003cbr\u003ethe water, earthquakes calve an island, and\u003cbr\u003eanother me adores another you\u003cbr\u003einland.\"\u003cbr\u003e—from \"The Stars\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFiercely elegiac, jaggedly sexual, \u003ci\u003eThe Last House\u003c\/i\u003e stands on the brink of devastation—personal, ancestral, cultural. There is transcendence here, but no redemption: it is too late. But this is also a book about love—protean, violent, perduring—love as the key to reality, even as it mystifies us or tears us apart. These are poems of deep and disturbing vision, sustained by electrifying honesty.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Kenyon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48278407381243,"sku":"9781894078740","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781894078740.jpg?v=1772487899","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-last-house-9781894078740","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}